I've done 2 installs of asp.net beta 2 on win 2000 pro and they worked 

fine.



I just installed on win 2000 advanced server and get this message when 

accessing any *.aspx file: "Error: Access is Denied." This is the only 

text on the page.



.asp and .htm files work fine in the same directory. The only difference I 

can see between my working and nonworking installations is the location 

and name of the root folder has been changed on the nonworking server.



IE will process simple .aspx pages when accessed directly on the server as 

a file. ie C:\\path\file.aspx works. http://domain/file.aspx does not work.

You might have a permissions issue, you should check the permissions on the 

user that is accessing your pages on behalf of your anonymous connections 

(like your IUSR_ account which is the default).  If your IIS user doesn't 

have the proper permissions to access your system level resources you will 

get an error of "access is denied".



Al





>From: "Lou Feicht" <lfeicht@f...>

>Reply-To: "ASP+" <aspx@p...>

>To: "ASP+" <aspx@p...>

>Subject: [aspx] Error: Access is Denied.

>Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:27:27

>

>I've done 2 installs of asp.net beta 2 on win 2000 pro and they worked

>fine.

>

>I just installed on win 2000 advanced server and get this message when

>accessing any *.aspx file: "Error: Access is Denied." This is the only

>text on the page.

>

>.asp and .htm files work fine in the same directory. The only difference I

>can see between my working and nonworking installations is the location

>and name of the root folder has been changed on the nonworking server.

>

>IE will process simple .aspx pages when accessed directly on the server as

>a file. ie C:\\path\file.aspx works. http://domain/file.aspx does not work.

>

>

>

I found the problem. Previous to posting my message I checked permissions 

on all the folders on the drive where the root web existed. The permission 

problem existed on the asp.net folder which was installed on another 

drive. Thus not allowing the aspnet_ewp process to start.